We’re not sure where Nokia is headed with this one but there is now a second Accuweather app in the Windows Phone Store, but this latest one is for Nokia Lumias only.

Now before every non-Nokia owner out there throws a fit, there is no difference between this version and the open one for all Windows Phone users. In fact, it’s slightly older being at version 2.1 whereas the common app is at version 2.2. This is similar to the Nokia SoundTracker app, where as far as we know there are no differences either.

So why does Nokia have a special version (that’s not really that special)? We can think of two possible reasons: this app may be now available in more regions where Nokia sells Lumias or, at some point Nokia will update this app to have more features like Nokia's Weather.com app with augmented reality.

At this point though for most of our users, you’ll want to stay on your current version of the app as this one doesn’t bring anything new to the table. Whether or not it does in the future remains to be seen and we’ll keep you posted.

For those who do want to check it out, you can grab it using this link from the Nokia Collection. Thanks, Sanil T., for the link!

Hey is it just me or are new Nokia Collection apps no longer appearing in the Windows Phone Store? I am only able to get at the new Nokia apps via the separate Nokia "App Highlights" app. Apps like Bloomberg, Nokia Music and City Lens do not appear in my Nokia Collection section.

How is Nokia or the Lumia 900 the official phone of communist china? That makes no sense to me at all. Maybe some of these apps are being added to Nokia so Nokia can clkerp them polished. The actual dev may no longer have the interest in maintaining that app and Nokia, being as dedicated as they are to WP, is taking over to keep some apps on life support? Just a thought.

Hi Daniel, your first hypothesis seems accurate. When I saw this app in the Nokia Collection (yesterday), I checked immediately whether the Weather.com app from Nokia was still there or not. And unfortunately, the Weather.com app is no more available in the French Marketplace (glad I downloaded it weeks ago). On another subject, I tweeted you a few days ago about Huffington Post and the fact that the official app disappeared from the Marketplace... if you want to investigate!